I swear that the authors on this site are actually trolling when they write lists of names. They almost never use a consistent name-order, even within a single post. Please compare “Yoko Hikasa” (Hikasa Youko) to “Kobayashi Yu” (Kobayashi Yuu). It’s really disappointing that a site devoted to far-east news doesn’t get something so simple right.

I mean, when she is not included in “most popular” lists one can understand that. She is just not the “idol” type, she does quality, not mass popularity. Yuu-sama leaves “idoling” to Luka Megurine, and it appears to be a wise decision, at least no chance of scandals because of creepy otaku.

Yuuki Aoi. Great voice, but not well known enough for a list like this. Heck, most of the seiyuu here are likely there just because they are well known. Any major list will be distorted by a particular seiyuu’s fanbase.

Kaori? Sure. Yui? Pass. She has a decent voice but it all sounds the same anymore. Her work last decade was so much better (think Naru from Love Hina). Now she’s type-casted…like Kugimiya Rie is for pure tsundere roles.

What’s not, is the people who berated them as if they have absolute authority over the seiyuu. Positive, building comments are one thing but what I see here are mostly deconstructing jeers a.k.a flaming. Don’t go forcing ideas on others when you never even stepped into their shoes, people.

Well, even in the history of humanity there’s something called ‘specialization’. I don’t get why people still keep fussing if a seiyuu only does one type of character, when it obviously suited their voice’s characteristics.

The way it’s written implies that the same actress does both roles. How is it any different from something like “The actress who does Haruhi Suzumiya and Konata Izumi”? “The actresses who do Holo/Horo and Shinobu from Bakemonogatari” would be what you’re looking for.

I’d say this is maybe the biggest gap in the list. Although Horie Yui ought to be here too — Nyaa! and Itou Kanae — no Sena? no Fumino? no Saten-san?

I’m a surprised by number 1 even though she was wonderful as Kiyama-sensei.

And Kitamura Eri should be higher than 8 (like 1), especially after roles such as Suzutsuki Kanade and Liliana Kraňčar. I’m glad to see Hikasa Youko highly-ranked as well. The most vile insult is pure candy coming from her. I had to watch episode 4 of Zombie 2 after thinking about this.

But overall, at least the top sixteen, is pretty good. I could listen to about 11 of them all day. Come to think of it, I guess I do. Sigh.

After Orsola Aquinas, I can’t agree. She’s got to be the sexiest nun ever.

And if Noto Mamiko started doing eroge, I’d have to buy a PC. While a lot of her roles seem to involve her never completing a sentence without halting, I’d almost be willing to give up my liver to Hagoromo Gitsune.

THANK THE HEAVENS!!!! I think Sawashiro should be first , nut cant complain about badass Kusanagi Motoko (GITS) seiyuu first!! A 50 year old at that!! AWESOME, why do I fell type b otaku are not te only voters in this list????? 🙂 🙂

@ Anon 22:17
While it is true that people should be left to their own personal tastes so long as they don’t interfere with others, I do think Anon 11:56 makes a point: some things tend to be overhyped because the people who like them never bothered to expand their horizons and experience stuff of arguably higher quality (or worse, some of them automatically assume that what they like is the best there is and outright refuse to give anything else a fair shot).

Of course, people can like what they like, but if a MAJORITY of people enjoy crap, and they can’t at least try to look beyond their current interests, then the industry is only going to pander to their shitty tastes. This is why Squenix milked Final Fantasy VII to death with that damnedable compilation, and thanks to the likes of Call of Duty and Halo, there’s almost no place for you in western mainstream gaming if you’re not a Michael Bay-level war fetishist. In Kugimiya’s case, her fanboys are the reason why J.C. Staff couldn’t adapt some of the light novels featuring her worth crap.

all of you suck including me. I suck, you suck, twilight sucks, obama sucks, clinton sucks, generous billionaires suck.
we are all shit and we all have our own opinions and personal stubborn facts. example- anon1 loves nanoha, anon2 hates her and thinks she’s shit and states that as fact. 1. the fact that nanoha is shit is anon2’s fact, not yours anon1 so agree to disagree and move on.

I agree with Anon 11:00. I consider myself firmly against Kugimiya type-casting, but even I’d be willing to say that when she isn’t being type-casted, she’s actually quite good. Seriously, go watch her role in Rosario+Vampire, it’s hard to even tell that it’s her. I’d be willing to say that her standard voice is quite cute as well, but unfortunately, I can’t listen to it anymore without shitty characters like Louise and Aria coming to my mind. -_- Would be nice if I could displace such characters from my head at some point, because they’re about the only thing ruining her more decent roles for me.

@ Anon 11:45
I was just stating an example. Although, I did choose Mizore as my example because I find her to be the most far removed from Rie’s standard tsundere voice (at least out of the roles that I’ve heard so far), whereas with characters like Alphonse and Ikuto, it’s still somewhat easy to tell that it’s her. At any rate, they all demonstrate that the so-called “tsundere queen” can actually do something besides tsundere. In fact, much like any professional seiyuu, she’s actually landed a ton of roles coming in all sorts of archetypes; it’s just that her tsundere roles have been the most over-hyped ever since Shana, thus why we mainly hear about them.

@ Anon 13:51
Never saw MariMite, but if Touko’s non-tsundere, then see above.

The other issue though is that the VAs that stand out more through their awesome singing, examples of which could be Minoru Chihara, Nana Mizuki or Rieka Yazawa, weren’t being considered either. Not that Rie Tanaka or Yukana are bad at this, though.